Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection
On Sat, 12 Apr 2008, Keith Kaiser wrote: > There is no indication at all in the View Incoming Data that it sees the > d700, the lights at the bottom of the screen are red indicating an interface > is set up for that channel but nothing happens when I attempt to start the > d700 dialog. Xastir is not opening the port. If it was, it'd be green. Stop worrying about the file and start worrying about the port itself. Dumb-terminal program... Verify the settings/port/permissions when run as a normal user. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection
There is no indication at all in the View Incoming Data that it sees the d700, the lights at the bottom of the screen are red indicating an interface is set up for that channel but nothing happens when I attempt to start the d700 dialog. At this point I'm still thinking it does not see tnc-startup.d700, I sure don't know why... I tried putting the full path to it in the interface setup but that didn't work either. I know we are running out of ideas here but On Apr 11, 2008, at 1:29 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote: On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, Keith Kaiser wrote: Xastir wasn't able to open the TNC interface at all, or didn't find the tnc-startup.d700 file? Well, that's a good question. How can I validate that it is opening or at least trying to open it? Is it possible to put a little note in the .d700 file that will display on screen or something? I think you should be able to see messages come back from the D700 on the "View->Incoming Data" dialog. Is the indicator on the status line for your D700 green or red? The very bottom one for that interface number... There should be a red arrow that lights up going right or left right above it to show data being transferred. This should happen when you first open up the interface as the tnc-startup.d700 file is transferred line-by-line to the radio. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection
--- James Ewen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can connect to one server with a radius around my > house, and to > another one with a radius around another area I'd > like to watch. > Unless I can ask for multiple areas all from one > server... I've never > tried that... can I ask for radius around 2 areas > from the same > server? Yep, you can. Just put multiple radius commands in and it will give you the data accordingly. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Jason KG4WSV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > there's no point in connecting to more than one aprs.net or aprs2.net > server (core or tier 2) Sure there is... you can set up multiple filters, and pick what you want out of the stream I can connect to one server with a radius around my house, and to another one with a radius around another area I'd like to watch. Unless I can ask for multiple areas all from one server... I've never tried that... can I ask for radius around 2 areas from the same server? James VE6SRV ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection
Speaking of which, first is going down shortly for emergency maintenance. gerry Keith Kaiser wrote: I reinstalled rotate, and told it to start, and to my astonishment it started. I'll stop all the others and leave just this one for now and see how it works. Thanks for getting me to revisit this. On Apr 11, 2008, at 4:26 PM, Jason KG4WSV wrote: On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Keith Kaiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I know that rotate.aprs.net is the default, but when I leave that one in there only, nothing seems to happen. that _could_ be another indication you have a network problem. rotate.aprs.net just returns one of first, second, or third (at the moment). The point to rotate is that it insulates you from core changes. For example if "fourth" is added, you automatically get it; if third has some scheduled downtime, it would be temporarily removed from rotate to avoid connectivity problems. -Jason kg4wsv ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir -- Gerry Creager -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Texas Mesonet -- AATLT, Texas A&M University Cell: 979.229.5301 Office: 979.862.3982 FAX: 979.862.3983 Office: 1700 Research Parkway Ste 160, TAMU, College Station, TX 77843 ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection
I reinstalled rotate, and told it to start, and to my astonishment it started. I'll stop all the others and leave just this one for now and see how it works. Thanks for getting me to revisit this. On Apr 11, 2008, at 4:26 PM, Jason KG4WSV wrote: On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Keith Kaiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I know that rotate.aprs.net is the default, but when I leave that one in there only, nothing seems to happen. that _could_ be another indication you have a network problem. rotate.aprs.net just returns one of first, second, or third (at the moment). The point to rotate is that it insulates you from core changes. For example if "fourth" is added, you automatically get it; if third has some scheduled downtime, it would be temporarily removed from rotate to avoid connectivity problems. -Jason kg4wsv ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Keith Kaiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know that rotate.aprs.net is the default, but when I leave that one in > there only, nothing seems to happen. that _could_ be another indication you have a network problem. rotate.aprs.net just returns one of first, second, or third (at the moment). The point to rotate is that it insulates you from core changes. For example if "fourth" is added, you automatically get it; if third has some scheduled downtime, it would be temporarily removed from rotate to avoid connectivity problems. -Jason kg4wsv ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection
there's no point in connecting to more than one aprs.net or aprs2.net server (core or tier 2) as they all have the same data stream - connecting to more than one is a waste of cpu time and bandwidth for all parties involved. it is recommended to connect to rotate.aprs.net instead of a specific server. -Jason kg4wsv ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection
On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, Keith Kaiser wrote: > I sure liked the sound of this idea, so I renamed, and rebuilt all my > preferences, re-added the interface items, and took the laptop out to the > garage but nope it still didn't see the .d700 file to activate it. Xastir wasn't able to open the TNC interface at all, or didn't find the tnc-startup.d700 file? > I do have a number of internet types set up, first.aprs.net, second.aprs.net, > and one or two others, I never really know if I need more than one or not. They get upset if you connect to more than one. I think they'll often disconnect you from one if they sense you connected to another. If you have more than one set up to auto-connect, that may cause you to bounce back and forth between the two every few minutes. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection
I sure liked the sound of this idea, so I renamed, and rebuilt all my preferences, re-added the interface items, and took the laptop out to the garage but nope it still didn't see the .d700 file to activate it. I do have a number of internet types set up, first.aprs.net, second.aprs.net, and one or two others, I never really know if I need more than one or not. I'm headed to Europe end of May and want something for over there too. But first I got to get this interface to my D700 working. I still need to do the dumb terminal thing. On Apr 11, 2008, at 11:05 AM, Curt, WE7U wrote: On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, Keith Kaiser wrote: Sorry about the RTF I had meant to convert it to plain text and I forgot. I'm a Mac guy, will dabble in Unix and do my best to stay away from Windblows as much as possible, so I understand your comment. Which means _you're_ a Unix guy now too... :-) I'll find some kind of dumb terminal program to work with and see what I learn, but I've had this unit working many times for many years so the connections to the D700 are correct. Minicom is what I usually use. The problems only started when I installed the new version of Xastir, I've even had it working with the MacBook Pro I'm using before so cabling isn't the issue. I used to install Xastir in /sw/share/ this is the first time I let it default to /usr/local/ so my head tells me its a permissions problem. But I really don't know where to start finding the problem, I'll try the dumb terminal route and see what I learn. If you're running the same config directory and files for Xastir as you were when you ran Xastir from /sw/share/, then I'd try this: Kill all running Xastir sessions cd mv .xastir .xastir.old Start up Xastir Xastir will create a new config directory and config file, so you'll be starting from scratch just like you're running it for the first time. Use the old config files as hints as you're filling in the boxes again. Some of your paths to various things can be messed up in your config file, pointing to the old install location for Xastir. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection
On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, Keith Kaiser wrote: > Sorry about the RTF I had meant to convert it to plain text and I forgot. I'm > a Mac guy, will dabble in Unix and do my best to stay away from Windblows as > much as possible, so I understand your comment. Which means _you're_ a Unix guy now too... :-) > I'll find some kind of dumb terminal program to work with and see what I > learn, but I've had this unit working many times for many years so the > connections to the D700 are correct. Minicom is what I usually use. > The problems only started when I installed the new version of Xastir, I've > even had it working with the MacBook Pro I'm using before so cabling isn't the > issue. I used to install Xastir in /sw/share/ this is the first time I let it > default to /usr/local/ so my head tells me its a permissions problem. But I > really don't know where to start finding the problem, I'll try the dumb > terminal route and see what I learn. If you're running the same config directory and files for Xastir as you were when you ran Xastir from /sw/share/, then I'd try this: Kill all running Xastir sessions cd mv .xastir .xastir.old Start up Xastir Xastir will create a new config directory and config file, so you'll be starting from scratch just like you're running it for the first time. Use the old config files as hints as you're filling in the boxes again. Some of your paths to various things can be messed up in your config file, pointing to the old install location for Xastir. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection
On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Keith Kaiser wrote: > Here is my last build of Xastir, maybe something will leap out at you guys. Please don't send anything but ASCII text files. It takes me much more effort to read them. I don't deal with Microsoft proprietary format files generally at work or at home. I'm strictly a Unix/Linux sort of guy. That said, I could read the RTF as plain text somewhat as long as I ignore the extra crap all over it. I see nothing wrong with your Xastir compile, nor should I. The problem you're having is most likely cabling or serial port setup. You may need a null-modem adapter, or you may be plugging into the wrong port on the radio (I've heard of other people having that problem). It's usually something simple. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Keith Kaiser wrote: > That's clear... thanks for the explanation. Guess I better go to bed, this > problem will still be here in the morning, and I'm getting tired of sitting in > my car in the garage. LOL > > Thanks for the help tonight guys, if you get a brain storm be sure to let me > know... oh... 9600bps right? http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/XASTIR_Manual#Kenwood_TM-D700_with_GPS -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection
Here is my last build of Xastir, maybe something will leap out at you guys. It's a simple txt file... On Apr 9, 2008, at 10:24 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote: On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Keith Kaiser wrote: This is a weird one guys. I did ls -lad /dev/lock the result is; drwxr-xr-t 2 root wheel 68 Apr 9 21:25 /var/lock Which is a little different than yours, I have a - where you have an x in the 6th position. What does that mean? Separate it out like this: d rwx r-x r-t The first means it's a directory. The other three groups are the read/write/execute permissions for each of three groups: Owner rwx Group r-x Other r-t (or r-x) Here's where it gets a bit strange: In the case of a directory the 'x' means you can change into the directory, it doesn't mean execute permission like it does on a file. Another weirdness: Other flags sometimes appear in the 'x' position, like 't', 'g', etc. The 't' is a "sticky" flag. On my system it appears as a 'T' if the 'x' flag is not set, and a 't' is the 'x' flag _is_ set. Hard to keep track of isn't it? You're probably good here with either a 't' or an 'x' in that last position for this case. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Keith Kaiser wrote: > This is a weird one guys. > > I did ls -lad /dev/lock the result is; > drwxr-xr-t 2 root wheel 68 Apr 9 21:25 /var/lock > > Which is a little different than yours, I have a - where you have an x in the > 6th position. What does that mean? Separate it out like this: d rwx r-x r-t The first means it's a directory. The other three groups are the read/write/execute permissions for each of three groups: Owner rwx Group r-x Other r-t (or r-x) Here's where it gets a bit strange: In the case of a directory the 'x' means you can change into the directory, it doesn't mean execute permission like it does on a file. Another weirdness: Other flags sometimes appear in the 'x' position, like 't', 'g', etc. The 't' is a "sticky" flag. On my system it appears as a 'T' if the 'x' flag is not set, and a 't' is the 'x' flag _is_ set. Hard to keep track of isn't it? You're probably good here with either a 't' or an 'x' in that last position for this case. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection
This is a weird one guys. I did ls -lad /dev/lock the result is; drwxr-xr-t 2 root wheel 68 Apr 9 21:25 /var/lock Which is a little different than yours, I have a - where you have an x in the 6th position. What does that mean? P.S. I've been doing sudo thanks. On Apr 9, 2008, at 10:08 PM, Jason KG4WSV wrote: On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 10:00 PM, Keith Kaiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: t I just noticed, its permissions are set to -rw-r--r--@ 1 root wheel 1439 Apr 9 21:08 tnc- startup.d700 don't they have to be executable? no, but they have to be writable. i don't have a 232/usb device to check, but i think the permissions should be 666 (rw-rw-rw-). But then again, that setuid xastir executable should take care of that. my /var/lock looks like yours, so i think that's OK: $ ls -lad /var/lock drwxrwxr-x 2 root uucp 68 Mar 30 10:49 /var/lock i thought I had done the setuid thing on /var/lock as well, but ls says otherwise, and my xastir works just fine. the xastir isn't suid root, either, so at a glance mine shouldn't work, but does. in case you haven't hit this, on the mac you'll probably want to "sudo cmd" for each of the commands Curt mentioned, instead of doing an su first. -Jason kg4wsv ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Jason KG4WSV wrote: > On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 10:00 PM, Keith Kaiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > t I just noticed, its permissions > > are set to -rw-r--r--@ 1 root wheel 1439 Apr 9 21:08 tnc-startup.d700 > > don't they have to be executable? > > no, but they have to be writable. i don't have a 232/usb device to > check, but i think the permissions should be 666 (rw-rw-rw-). But > then again, that setuid xastir executable should take care of that. He's talking about the tnc-startup file above, not the serial port... > in case you haven't hit this, on the mac you'll probably want to "sudo > cmd" for each of the commands Curt mentioned, instead of doing an su > first. I never know if people have /etc/sudoers set up properly and know how to use sudo, so often I quote the brute-force method. Since I caught the sudo bug myself I always use it! -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 10:00 PM, Keith Kaiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > t I just noticed, its permissions > are set to -rw-r--r--@ 1 root wheel 1439 Apr 9 21:08 tnc-startup.d700 > don't they have to be executable? no, but they have to be writable. i don't have a 232/usb device to check, but i think the permissions should be 666 (rw-rw-rw-). But then again, that setuid xastir executable should take care of that. my /var/lock looks like yours, so i think that's OK: $ ls -lad /var/lock drwxrwxr-x 2 root uucp 68 Mar 30 10:49 /var/lock i thought I had done the setuid thing on /var/lock as well, but ls says otherwise, and my xastir works just fine. the xastir isn't suid root, either, so at a glance mine shouldn't work, but does. in case you haven't hit this, on the mac you'll probably want to "sudo cmd" for each of the commands Curt mentioned, instead of doing an su first. -Jason kg4wsv ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Keith Kaiser wrote: > This is the device name, cut out of the terminal window; cu.USA19H1a2P1.1 > which is what I'm using. This goes back to my original thought that it wasn't > seeing the tnc-startup.d700 script. Which is located in; > /usr/local/share/xastir/tnc-startup.d700 but I just noticed, its permissions > are set to -rw-r--r--@ 1 root wheel 1439 Apr 9 21:08 tnc-startup.d700 > don't they have to be executable? Nope. Just readable by any user, which they are. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection
This is the device name, cut out of the terminal window; cu.USA19H1a2P1.1 which is what I'm using. This goes back to my original thought that it wasn't seeing the tnc-startup.d700 script. Which is located in; /usr/local/share/xastir/tnc-startup.d700 but I just noticed, its permissions are set to -rw-r--r--@ 1 root wheel 1439 Apr 9 21:08 tnc-startup.d700 don't they have to be executable? On Apr 9, 2008, at 9:52 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote: On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Keith Kaiser wrote: No, the lock file is empty. H! Your on to something now, but what? If that file is not created, that means that Xastir is not opening the device. Whether it's a permission problem or the USB device has switched names on you, I cannot say. Look at the same files you originally checked to determine the name of the device. Check whether it's changed on you. Are you getting any error messages to the Xterm you start Xastir on? -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Keith Kaiser wrote: > No, the lock file is empty. > > H! Your on to something now, but what? If that file is not created, that means that Xastir is not opening the device. Whether it's a permission problem or the USB device has switched names on you, I cannot say. Look at the same files you originally checked to determine the name of the device. Check whether it's changed on you. Are you getting any error messages to the Xterm you start Xastir on? -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection
No, the lock file is empty. H! Your on to something now, but what? On Apr 9, 2008, at 9:40 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote: On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Keith Kaiser wrote: Done drwxr-xr-t 2 root wheel 68 Apr 9 21:25 lock Still a no-go. Are you getting a file created there that looks something like this? -rw-r--r-- 1 root users 23 2008-04-05 18:04 LCK..ttyUSB0 The file above is what I have on my system. The contents of the file are the process ID of the main Xastir process. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Keith Kaiser wrote: > Done > > drwxr-xr-t 2 root wheel 68 Apr 9 21:25 lock > > Still a no-go. Are you getting a file created there that looks something like this? -rw-r--r-- 1 root users 23 2008-04-05 18:04 LCK..ttyUSB0 The file above is what I have on my system. The contents of the file are the process ID of the main Xastir process. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection
Done drwxr-xr-t 2 root wheel 68 Apr 9 21:25 lock Still a no-go. On Apr 9, 2008, at 9:24 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote: On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Keith Kaiser wrote: I did the chmod, I even did a ./configure then a make and a sudo make install then the chmod but it still didn't work. There is no directory under var called lock, should I create an empty one? Yea, give that a shot. Create it as root: cd /var su mkdir lock chmod 1775 lock exit # (from root) The reason for the chmod command is that the sticky bit should be set. At least that's how it is on my Linux box here: drwxrwxr-t 5 root uucp 4096 2008-04-09 16:06 lock -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Keith Kaiser wrote: > I did the chmod, I even did a ./configure then a make and a sudo make install > then the chmod but it still didn't work. There is no directory under var > called lock, should I create an empty one? Yea, give that a shot. Create it as root: cd /var su mkdir lock chmod 1775 lock exit # (from root) The reason for the chmod command is that the sticky bit should be set. At least that's how it is on my Linux box here: drwxrwxr-t 5 root uucp 4096 2008-04-09 16:06 lock -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection
I did the chmod, I even did a ./configure then a make and a sudo make install then the chmod but it still didn't work. There is no directory under var called lock, should I create an empty one? H, we need another idea. On Apr 9, 2008, at 7:21 PM, Jason KG4WSV wrote: On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Curt, WE7U <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Keith Kaiser wrote: I connect my laptop (Mac OS X) running Xastir to my D700 using a Keyspan serial/USB adapter (cu.USA19H1a2P1.1). I can see the adapter in terminal when I do ls /dev so I know I have the correct id for it. But now when I select that connection in the interface control nothing happens, it doesn't even blink. If all that seems unlikely to be the problem, does someone else have an idea what could be causing it? It's likely that Xastir isn't able to open it. Could be permissions, could be a different interface being used now. hmm, i've never seen permissions problems working with a variety of mac os x 232/usb drivers, but i don't update my drivers too often, either. i do vaguely remember a lock directory that xastir wanted to use didn't exist, or had the wrong permissions on it. Does /var/lock exist on your machine? Curt's fix for making xastir setuid root will solve permissions problems on that directory, but won't help if it doesn't exist. Does the console where you kicked off xastir display any messages, helpful or otherwise? -Jason kg4wsv ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Curt, WE7U <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Keith Kaiser wrote: > > > I connect my laptop (Mac OS X) running Xastir to my D700 using a Keyspan > > serial/USB adapter (cu.USA19H1a2P1.1). I can see the adapter in terminal > when > > I do ls /dev so I know I have the correct id for it. But now when I select > > that connection in the interface control nothing happens, it doesn't even > > blink. > > > > If all that seems unlikely to be the problem, does someone else have an idea > > what could be causing it? > > It's likely that Xastir isn't able to open it. Could be > permissions, could be a different interface being used now. hmm, i've never seen permissions problems working with a variety of mac os x 232/usb drivers, but i don't update my drivers too often, either. i do vaguely remember a lock directory that xastir wanted to use didn't exist, or had the wrong permissions on it. Does /var/lock exist on your machine? Curt's fix for making xastir setuid root will solve permissions problems on that directory, but won't help if it doesn't exist. Does the console where you kicked off xastir display any messages, helpful or otherwise? -Jason kg4wsv ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Keith Kaiser wrote: > I connect my laptop (Mac OS X) running Xastir to my D700 using a Keyspan > serial/USB adapter (cu.USA19H1a2P1.1). I can see the adapter in terminal when > I do ls /dev so I know I have the correct id for it. But now when I select > that connection in the interface control nothing happens, it doesn't even > blink. > If all that seems unlikely to be the problem, does someone else have an idea > what could be causing it? It's likely that Xastir isn't able to open it. Could be permissions, could be a different interface being used now. Try as root: chmod 4755 /usr/local/bin/xastir Then exit from the root user and run Xastir again. The above command should allow Xastir to become root when it needs to, which it will try when it opens a serial port. If that gets the port working then just remember to do that each time after you do a fresh "make install" of Xastir. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
[Xastir] D700 Connection
A couple of weeks ago I asked this question and thanks to all the experts out there I got over the problem, but now I have it again. I connect my laptop (Mac OS X) running Xastir to my D700 using a Keyspan serial/USB adapter (cu.USA19H1a2P1.1). I can see the adapter in terminal when I do ls /dev so I know I have the correct id for it. But now when I select that connection in the interface control nothing happens, it doesn't even blink. It's almost like the startup file is not being seen, I use tnc-startup.d700 and tnc-stop.d700 to close it down. How can I be sure its seeing that file to start up? Is there a level of logging I can turn on or some other way to verify its pointing to the correct file? If all that seems unlikely to be the problem, does someone else have an idea what could be causing it? Thanks in advance guys. 73's ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
